Shulamith Firestone Memorial Apartment

Work with a committee of feminists to create a "Shulamith Firestone Memorial Apartment". In the apartment in which feminist pioneer Shulamith Firestone lived and worked for 30 years. This aparment would, in perpetuity, remain well below market rates and which rent would, at this time, not exceed $1,000. per month; it would be reserved for a woman who is making an important contribution to the feminist movement that is not well remunerated.

Because... The Feminist world, the Art world and the Lower East Side/East Village Community have just lost one of our great visionaries--Shulamith Firestone--a woman who was able to remain, work and survive in her/our neighborhood for many years because she paid a relatively low rent...

Because... the average rent being charged new renters in our neighborhood is $2,100., and had Shulamith tried to rent here today, it would have been impossible for her to find, live and work in an apartment she could afford...

Because... the Lower East Side/East Village environment is all the poorer for the loss, due to skyrocketing rents, of the kind of creative spirits that formerly gave the neighborhood its unique character--but who are now being priced out...

Because... Shulamith's sister feminists, friends and admirers would like to memorialize her by making it possible for a feminist(s) coming after her to be able to live in this neighborhood and do feminist work here--such work usually being either unpaid or poorly paid, and therefore requiring an affordable rent...

Because... it is well within "fair housing practices" developed over decades for developers/owners of housing in formerly working class neighborhoods to create "set-asides" of affordable rental units for those who cannot pay market rates...

Such a permanent affordable feminist space wold provide material support for the ongoing work of feminism and by so doing would continue the legacy of Shulamith Firestone.

Work with a committee of feminists to create a "Shulamith Firestone Memorial Apartment". In the apartment in which feminist pioneer Shulamith Firestone lived and worked for 30 years. This aparment would, in perpetuity, remain well below market rates and which rent would, at this time, not exceed $1,000. per month; it would be reserved for a woman who is making an important contribution to the feminist movement that is not well remunerated.

Because... The Feminist world, the Art world and the Lower East Side/East Village Community have just lost one of our great visionaries--Shulamith Firestone--a woman who was able to remain, work and survive in her/our neighborhood for many years because she paid a relatively low rent...

Because... the average rent being charged new renters in our neighborhood is $2,100., and had Shulamith tried to rent here today, it would have been impossible for her to find, live and work in an apartment she could afford...

Because... the Lower East Side/East Village environment is all the poorer for the loss, due to skyrocketing rents, of the kind of creative spirits that formerly gave the neighborhood its unique character--but who are now being priced out...

Because... Shulamith's sister feminists, friends and admirers would like to memorialize her by making it possible for a feminist(s) coming after her to be able to live in this neighborhood and do feminist work here--such work usually being either unpaid or poorly paid, and therefore requiring an affordable rent...

Because... it is well within "fair housing practices" developed over decades for developers/owners of housing in formerly working class neighborhoods to create "set-asides" of affordable rental units for those who cannot pay market rates...

Such a permanent affordable feminist space wold provide material support for the ongoing work of feminism and by so doing would continue the legacy of Shulamith Firestone.